Newcastle Continue To Capture Top Youngsters

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

11:40am Monday, January 26th, 2009

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Newcastle will continue to bring in some top youngsters in the January transfer window, to go with the five we brought in last January, when essentially our search for young talent around the world was started.

16 year-old Slovenian midfielder Haris Vuckic

And of course during the summer Newcastle also beat Arsenal to the signing of much sought after 15 year old striker Aaron Spear, who was in great demand from a number of other Premier League clubs too.

It seems the Newcastle scouts have done their job this time around too with the youngsters, and at the time of writing it looks like we could add at least another 4 teenagers to the growing rank of top youngsters learning their football trade on Tyneside.

We’re looking for that number to be as many as four and possibly including:

18 year-old Brazilian forward Cai Ferreira

16 year-old Slovenian midfielder Haris Vuckic

18 year old Hungarian midfielder Andras Gosztonyi

17 year old Swedish forward Samuel Adjei

They will join the ever growing list of excellent youngsters we have at the club.

And it’s not just the Newcastle Under-18 side that is blossoming with 12 games in a row undefeated, but our Reserve side has an average age of just 18 for almost every game.

Richard Money – vital job in bringing youngsters through

At least one thing that seems to be working well at Newcastle under owner Ashley is the Youth policy, which should have been a priority for us decades ago.

But hey, it’s never too late, and it seems to be working very well under the excellent leadership of our new Youth Academy Director Richard Money, who seems to us to be doing an outstanding job in what is a vital role at the club.

We’ll have a piece on Richard later this week, detailing the things he is doing at Newcastle for the youngsters – and ensuring their parents are comfortable in letting their kids come to Newcastle in the first place.

To us, Richard’s an unsung hero at the Newcastle United club – and just getting on with the job.

Have we signed those players? I knew they had trials and the players and their agents have said something about a possibility of joining but there has been nothing official from NUFC. Hope we sign the whole bunch. I am really excited about Vuckic and Gosztonyi.

In five years our team should look really promising if our youngsters develop as they should…Ranger, Kadar, Donaldson and Vukic to name a few. Seeing as Ashley is trying to balance the books, i could see these players being use more and more in the next few years which should make us more attractive to more youngsters.

However all this will be meaningless if we dont manage to get the 2-3 players in other the next week and players, especially Martins and Barton, fit as we will really strugge bit time.

Oh and i thought the Brazilian player had a Itilian passport as well (suspicially like many Argies and Brazilians).

i remember seeing Vela on tele and straightaway thinking crikey sign him up he was playing for some lowly Spanish outfit but of course too late Arsenal had got him. Brilliant scouting by Arsenal as usual.

Don’t get too excited about these youngsters coming in. Yes they may come, and yes they may be good, but they will be sold for a profit when they make it to the first team. We are a selling club now. We might get a season or two out of a couple of them.

Oh and another thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if Given is sold later in the week when it’s too late to buy anyone. I hope I’m wrong.

Can you tell I have got no faith left in the management. I’ve got no hope and even worse no expectations. How sad is that.

Typing this has just made me realise how much I have lost. I’m gutted.

Ashley get your finger out your ar5e and sort it out. I understand you have spent loads more than expected but you have to realise you cannot run a club like you are doing. Once the freefall starts it’s hard to claw your way back up.

Just for the record I’ve kept up my boycott of club gear. That’s another reason I’m gutted. I still haven’t got the away strip. I’ve got them all except that one. Well, a good few years worth anyway.

All Ashley is doing is trying to buy young kids and hope they’ll develop into world beaters in order to sell them at a huge profit. The first team is going nowhere and looking at some of the prospective purchases we will be just above the relegation battles year in year out !!!

I think Asley is trying to set it up so we can get rid of some of the high wage earners and bring some kids through instead of buying ready made replacements. Everyone apart from our firs team is doing well and we obvisouly have some talent there.

If we get rid of Zog I’d like to see Lua Lua and Godsmark get a chance. Lua Lua should be replacing Jonas if he cant do the full 90 to give the kid some mis here and there.

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My latest bone scans and CAT scans were completed on Wednesday of this week and yesterday I met with my oncologist Dr. Dhruva to look over the results.

The stage four cancer remains stabilized and has not spread any further over the last six months.

I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in early 2017 after being in remission for six years.

The cancer metastasized through the bones to different parts of the body and the treatment I am undergoing is hormone treatment.

There is no cure for stage 4 cancer but there are treatments (like Hormone treatment) that attempt to prolong life.

I am upbeat with the results and remain in awe of the doctors and nurses at the Rex Cancer Center here in Raleigh.

It's truly humbling to see how inspiring they are with their patients.

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